Joe, how can someone is “obsessively concerned with something” (the Bucs) prefer to watch it on TV?

Where does Joe start?

Getting to sleep in, relax early in the day > rushing through traffic to get to arrive hours before kickoff.

Park on couch > pay $20 to park.

Sit on leather couch for free in air conditioning > pay to sit in hot plastic chair for $30+ .

No one blocking view of HDTV > having to stare at the back of some clown wearing a Grammatica jersey because he just has to stand up all game.

Better camera angle and many replays from different angles of every play > not a great angle and maybe getting one replay from one angle on the big screen.

Rarely is bathroom door locked > wait in line to go to the bathroom.

Pause DVR to go to fridge/kitchen/bathroom > miss plays waiting in line for food/drink/bathroom.

Quality craft beers > mass produced domestics.

Rewind plays on DVR > hope to see replays on nightly news later.

That’s just a few things.

So please tell Joe once again why you cannot be a hardcore fan and watch games at home? So people outside the area who live out of state can’t be hardcore fans? Please.

More and more — the evidence is all around — fans are preferring to stay home and watch games. The NFL has even acknowledged this.

Don’t say it is HD either. I’ve owned one since 2004 and had the first 60-inch HDTV that didn’t cost as much as a luxury car.

Football on TV is for people who can’t go to the game and for casual observers — the same people who go to the game and then spend the entire time by the ship.

I’ve missed one game in 5 seasons and I can tell you there are more people with their finger up in the air then those selling tickets. No one is paying face and no one wants to sit up in the corners.

No Joe, Buccaneer fans don’t prefer to stay at home.

Totally disagree. The numbers are there, both locally and nationally, for anyone to see and read. Not sure why it’s so difficult for people to understand that more and more people prefer to watch from home than go through all the hassle of going to a game?

Doesn’t mean they are any more or less a fan than those who go.

No TV = less interest. Less interest = lower attendance. Doesn’t seem too hard to figure out.

Really? Average NFL attendance has dropped four years in a row, yet TV ratings are through the roof. Spiking TV ratings in fact.

Your formula is actually backwards.

Also.. if so, how the f^<k do scalpers make money?!

@fridgebob – Appreciate your sarcasm, but essentially your first paragraph is correct and Kennedy is correct. Certain ticket giveaways aren’t tickets bought up by Team Glazer to avoid a blackout. The Bucs were way off the mark by the deadline and didn’t hit it even after the final tally.